My Rage Over Skinny Jeans

I am under no illusion and as I slowly try to get fitter and healthier and lose some chub I still need to wear clothes.

Don’t worry I am not going to go fashionista on you, nor am I going to take photos of my oversized fat ass trying to squeeze into something too small for me.

However I am going to tell you a little bit about my recent rage.

Now after finally dropping into a size 20 jeans and having to buy jeans in a short leg I know that plus size clothing in short legs are harder to find, however what I didn’t expect to find was a total lack of jeans full stop!

After heading in store to some of our nations high street giants I have to say I am beyond livid.

I do not want to wear super skinny, skinny, or high-waisted skinny jeans or even jegging come to that. I want a normal pair of straight leg jeans. No embellishments, no massive rips or tears just a basic quality pair of jeans.

In the past the only retailer I found with standard straight leg jeans in were Bonmarche. The jeans were ok but I found the dye wears quickly and the elasticity doesn’t last long either but at £15 for a pair in there range I had just sucked it up and have kept replacing them on a 2 -3 month cycle instead.

Why is it I can’t find a single pair of size 20 short, straight leg jeans in a blooming store? I don’t think it’s a massive request, I don’t think I am being fussy.

After trawling the shops yesterday with my friend it only reiterated that high street retailers are obsessed with super skinny jeans and jeggings and I am beyond peeved.

I have instead ordered some online with Marks and Spencer’s and I am hoping they are going to fit as there are only another 4 retailers online I can spot with anything like straight leg jeans.

If you are on the hunt for jeggings or skinny jeans I bet you are having a total ball clothes shopping these days! …

For me however I don’t fancy denim wrapping my bottoms half … after all these days when I need a wee, I need a wee, I don’t have 3 hours notice and a pot of talc to hand to get me back into my jeans.

Dear High Street stores when you have more to offer in a more classic style I will be back but until then shove your super skinny’s where the sun doesn’t shine.

They are the ones I ordered yesterday and I have sent them back this morning, They were too long in the body so I felt like I was pulling them up all the time. I think I am going to have to buy regular and just chop off 6 inches lol

I feel your pain. I need the same size but in between a regular and long. And I need bootcut because I have day calves and straight on me are like skinny. I do like m&s jeans but the bootcut are always sold out online in indigo. Sainsburys Tu straight are good (not too skinny) although they do get a bit baggy.inbetween washes. New look curve are good for me but come up high and I’m not sure if they do a short. And try Tap although their straight might be ripped ones. It is a nightmare getting anything other than skinny

I have just sent the M&S straight leg ones back .. nice enough but too long in the body so will have to give bootcut a try from them .. fingers crossed! btw … thank you for making me a little less paranoid about my jean hating ways

This ^^^ i loved my maternity jeans and would have still been wearing mine nearly 2 years later had they not have had the material bump cover! They were a far better fit and so much more comfortable without making me feel like I was being squeezed out the seams!